"Do these guys have to sodomize the Declaration of Independence in front of you?"

[WilliamPitt]

Jon Stewart on the Comey testimony: "Holy *expletive*! Apparently the president of the United States sent his chief of staff and legal counsel to an ICU to convince a drugged-up, pancreatically-inflamed John Ashcroft to subvert the Constitution!"

Stewart shows Sen. Charles Schumer's reaction: "The story is a shocking one. It makes you almost gulp."

To which Stewart responds: "ALMOST? ALMOST GULP? What is it going to take to make you actually gulp? Do these guys have to sodomize the Declaration of Independence in front of you?"

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index.jhtml?ml_video=87225

:)

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Stewart was great. It is so satisfying to see someone tell it like it really is.

[Dark]

2. Bush could sodomize kitten and then perform an abortion on it for his State of the Union speech and

29% of the country, as well as most congressional republicans, would still kiss his ass.

[indepat]

20. You are portraying as very sick a sizable portion of the people of this country, very accurately

may I add?

[SammyWinstonJack]

22. All he would have too say was "911" "Saddam" "Hate us for our Freedoms"

and his 29% would fall right in line. :banghead:

[anotherCTliberal]

36. Or the all encompassing "terrorists" b/s

[blm]

3. I wish the Judiciary Committee had more outraged senators on it.

This committee should have worked to stop Alito with everything they had in them, and stopped Gonzales LONG AGO.

[bigtree]

37. Of course, Schumer voted 'no' on Alito

and has called for Gonzales to resign . . .

In voting 'no' on Gonzales' nomination:

"The Attorney General is unlike all the other Cabinet officers. For those other Cabinet officers, simply carrying out the President's agenda is enough. But to be a good Attorney General, unqualified deference to the President isn't enough."

http://www.senate.gov/~schumer/SchumerWebsite/pressroom/record.cfm?id=260902

[blm]

49. Yes, Schumer voted no but also didn't WANT a filibuster and attacked those who did

instead of working WITH them to convince more senators to join it.

Funny way to support a filibuater, eh? By attacking those leading it?

[irish.lambchop]

4. "ALMOST?"

I'm losing it - again! You'd written a piece some time ago (sorry, don't remember the title, but was on "truthout" - maybe a year or more?) and I responded with a hearty "thank you!" for giving me hope in my country again. Feel like I've got one oar in the water, AGAIN! Every time gonzales walks out from testifying and isn't slapped in handcuffs, I truly wonder what the f*ck is going on! Some great 'conspiracy' to make us all think we're nuts?!

[grasswire]

5. wouldn't that be "almost nuts"? (eom)

[TahitiNut]

9. Please don't say "nuts" like it's a Bad Thing™©®

:silly:

* This is a public service posting on behalf of the International Alliance of Fruits & Nuts, Anti-defamation Division.

[EFerrari]

6. F me. I never could have imagined that I'd feel concern

for John Ashcroft.

[StarryNite]

7. Aw, come on it's just politics

Both sides do it. :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[solara]

8. Apparently, the answer is ... yes

INVESTIGATE IMPEACH INDICT IMPRECATE INCARCERATE :banghead:

[sellitman]

10. Sad that this has to be what we constitute as humor.

Yet its so true.

[MsLeopard]

11. Tell it like it is, Jon

What the hell has happened to this country when a comedy show host appears to be the only one with spine enough to tell the truth??? K&R

[bobbolink]

13. I think we know what's happened. It's called BOUGHT OFF!!!

:nuke:

[HardRocker05]

12. straight men really shouldn't use the words 'rape' or 'sodomize' figuratively. they do it far

far too easily and i cringe every time i hear it.

[Rosemary2205]

23. ??????????

Help me here. I have no clue how sodomizing has anything to do with gay or straight. Men raping women use sodomy often.

[file83]

51. Some people just see the world through victim-colored glasses.

No amount of truth will get through their filter.

[senseandsensibility]

14. The "almost gulp" quote is a great straight line

for Stewart, and I can see the humor in it. But what did Schumer actually mean by it? He has been a hawk on the GONE-zalez bandwagon and I know he is truly outraged. Was it juat an unfortunate choice of words?

[bigtree]

15. cheap shot. Schumer has taken the Bush administration and its lackeys to task over the Constitution

several times.

He's provided some of the most visible opposition to Bush, often citing Bush's abuse of the Constitution.

In fact, Stewart has been seen licking republican ass far too many times to be given any room to slam Schumer over the use of the word "almost;" as if the Senator was somehow letting the administration off the hook.

But, what can you expect from these 'critics' of the administration who seem to relish even more in attacking our party than they do the administration? Anything for a self-aggrandizing laugh.

[Forkboy]

16. Please

"Anything for a self-aggrandizing laugh."

Well..that IS a comedian's profession.

"In fact, Stewart has been seen licking republican ass..."

:eyes:

[bigtree]

26. Stewart is like Imus

He leads us in attacking the Bush administration, but takes his share out of the Democrats who are trying to oppose them; usually right at the point in the campaign or confrontation where our party needs and deserves support and momentum.

He's a self-admitted ass-clown who covets and gives platform to republicans when it suits him (admittedly rare these days, but Stewart still takes his glee in ridiculing Democrats when it suits him; a pretty popular pastime here, often, as well)

[Swamp Rat]

28. "He's a self-admitted ass-clown who covets and gives platform to republicans"

:rofl:

[Swamp Rat]

17. Who saw Jon Stewart "licking republican ass?"

Who?

[bigtree]

25. McCain? (Not the last one, one of the 9 other times he's had him on)

Kissinger?

Richard Perle?

Andrew Card? (Stewart: "You are the nicest man I ever didn't want to like I've ever met.")

There's got to be more . . . I've turned him off several times after watching him suck up to these creeps. Certainly his nicey-nice treatment of them was much more pernicious and enabling than Schumer saying 'almost'. That's my point. I never trusted Stewart, although I usually find myself laughing along with him.

He needs to stick to criticizing the republican obstructionists. Schumer isn't soft at all on Bush's abuse and misuse of the Constitution. Neither is the majority of our Democratic party that Stewart *likes to harp on.

[Swamp Rat]

27. "He needs to stick to criticizing the republican obstructionists."

Jon Stewart is a comedian, not a politician. :+

[bigtree]

29. what, is that supposed to be some revelation?

[Swamp Rat]

30. Someone apparently has to remind you.

According to your posts in this thread, you have placed an inappropriate, counterfactual, and downright absurd onus on Jon Stewart.

[bigtree]

32. I've watched enough cheap shots from him

Mister "neither Democrat or republican" doesn't deserve any lionization from Democrats. No one should expect someone like me who works to support and elevate our party, its members, and its agenda to celebrate the crap that comes from Stewart directed toward our party's hard-working legislators. I don't care how many cracks at republicans he makes along with all of that.

Stewart used Schumer's use of the word "almost' to highlight his recent tirade against Democrats for what he sees as their unwillingness to confront the administration on Gonzales. Schumer isn't the one obstructing accountability from Gonzales and the administration. His crack was a cheap shot against Schumer; one of many he's made against hard-working Democrats committed to holding the Bush administration accountable.

[Swamp Rat]

34. Oh well, to each her own.

Long live da 9th Ward!

[WilliamPitt]

18. You need to change that sig quote

to "Stop laughing. Seriously. Stop."

:eyes:

[bigtree]

19. it's a cheap shot

the funniest lines are the ones that ring true or reveal something about the target's character which rings true. This was an opportunistic crack at an unfortunately tepid word the senator used. Typical cheap shot at one of our hardest working opponents of this administration from a typical cheap shot artist looking for a laugh, and perhaps a cheer from his minions.

Jon's my hero! :eyes:

[indepat]

21. This cabal has more than just sodomized our Constitution: it's almost tantamount

to their dancing a jig on the deceased following the sodomization.

[seemslikeadream]

24. some one pointed out

Up until this moment, Ashcroft had been signing off on the program every 45 days. That means his signature was last required in late January, shortly after Comey assumed his post, and perhaps even before he’d been authorized access to the program. Suddenly, the March 11 date comes into clearer focus. For the first time, trained and qualified attorneys within the Justice Department had conducted a careful review of the program. Comey took the evidence he had gathered to Ashcroft, as he testified on Tuesday: “A week before that March 11th deadline, I had a private meeting with the attorney general for an hour, just the two of us, and I laid out for him what we had learned and what our analysis was in this particular matter.” By the end of that meeting, Ashcroft and Comey had “agreed on a course of action,” to wit, that they “would not certify the program as to its legality.”


Watch the video. Ashcroft became ill WITHIN HOURS of the meeting with Comey where Ashcroft decided not to sign off on the program once he was apprised of what was going on. It sounds like the DOJ was bugged and that they tried to murder Ashcroft within hours

[Jack Rabbit]

31. Democrats should be as determined to defend the Constitution as they are to play nice with BushCo

It's not like the story about Ashcroft in the ICU was new, but it hadn't been rendered so dramatically by an eye witness before now.

Domestic warrentless wiretapping; politicizing the Justice Department from A to Z; an illegal war justified with deliberate lies and amnipulated intelligence; approval of torture.

Will, these guys already have sodomized the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the flag and Mom and apple pie.

[bigtree]

33. Schumer on Gonzales (and the Constitution):

Face the Nation transcript: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/11/schumer-gonzales/

SCHIEFFER: Senator Schumer, what do you think ought to be done about this situation?

SCHUMER: Well, Bob, you know, the Justice Department is different than any other department. In every other department, the chief cabinet officer is supposed to follow the president’s orders, request, without exception.

But the Justice Department has a higher responsibility: rule of law and the Constitution. And Attorney General Gonzales in his department has been even more political than his predecessor, Attorney General Ashcroft.

Attorney General Gonzales is a nice man. But he either doesn’t accept or doesn’t understand that he is no longer just the president’s lawyer, but has a higher obligation to the rule of law and the Constitution, even when the president should not want it to be so. And so this department has been so political that I think for the sake of the nation, Attorney General Gonzales should step down.



Schumer: Gonzales has forgotten his oath

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has "either forgotten the oath he took to uphold the Constitution or doesn't understand that his duty to uphold the law is greater than his duty to protect the president," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., just told reporters on Capitol Hill.

Schumer, who on Sunday called for Gonzales to resign, says today's reports of White House involvement in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys add to a "startling amount of information" that indicates "the only bad actors in this case were top officials at the White House and Justice Department, not the U.S. attorneys."

The senator -- No. 3 on the list of Democratic leaders in the Senate -- also called the firings of the prosecutors an "unprecedented breach of trust and abuse of power."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/03/schumer_gonzale.html


On Hardball: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/05/18/chuck-schumer-rips-into-gonzales/

Schumer: "The Attorney General, unlike all the others, doesn't just follow the President's orders, but he's the chief law enforcement officer of the land. And the antics, what we saw went on, is reminiscent of something in a third world dicatatorship, not the United States of America and it's hard to believe that the President and his inner circle doesn't get that."

[bigtree]

35. the rest of Schumer's quote:

``The story is a shocking one. It makes you almost gulp,'' Schumer said. The incident shows that Gonzales holds the rule of law ``in minimum low regard,'' the senator said, adding, ``It's hard to understand after hearing this story how Attorney General Gonzales could remain as attorney general.''

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aCwPKnwfv6.w&refer=home

[depakid]

44. Hard to understand?

The only reason he was confirmed- or why he's still there is because of the failure of certain Democrats to have the integrity and party discipline to have confirmed torture boy (and so many others) in the first place.

[bigtree]

47. whatever

Schumer didn't vote to confirm him.

[depakid]

50. The party didn't filibuster him, either

just like all the other egregious nominees out there why no reasonable person should have supported or enabled.

[proud patriot]

38. LOL

Oh man ,, I got tears laughing ..:rofl:

ohhhh I needed that :)

[omega minimo]

39. Maybe if they gave it a blowjob

:wow:

[Patsy Stone]

40. The telenovela part rocked, too. n/t

[Triana]

41. The sad thing is, Congress, the Senate and the lamestream media

ought to be the ones expressing outrage like Stewart's. We shouldn't only be seeing this on a damned comedy show. The fact that we are whilst the "news" media totally ignores it, is a sad - no - DESPICABLE statement about the uselessness and degradation of our gov't and the US media.

In other words - this OUGHT to be blaring on the evening news and Congress and the Senate ought to be crying bloody murder (of our Constitution). It's certainly heinous enough.

[bigtree]

48. funny thing though,

Schumer has been giving the administration hell about Gonzales from the time he voted against his confirmation. It's this type of pushing off on the Democrats who are working to hold the administration accountable that obscures their efforts under the smears of the critic's broad brush. Instead of receiving the butt of Stewart's opportunistic crack, Schumer's efforts should have been recognized (if in fact Stewart actually gave a damn about anything more than making a joke out of it all).

[Cleita]

42. As I said in another post. In other countries this would be

pitchfork and torches time. I am really beginning to wonder if our water supply or air isn't pumped full of soma like drugs (Brave New World) to make the majority of the population into agreeable idiots.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

43. That Is Too Goddamn Funny In Its Own Make Ya Wanna Cry Way. Gotta Love Jon!

He's hands down one of the wittiest and sharp political pundits out there that isn't even one. What I wouldn't give to have him be the guest speaker on every cable news cast.

[misanthrope]

45. Why not? They've already wiped their butt with the Constitution.**nm

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[DemReadingDU]

46. This is great!